[applause] >> my name is peter hitchens.ds in which my brother read at our father's funeral in our home county of hampshire in england almost 25 years ago. they are the epistle to the philippians. finally, brethren, what sort of things are true, what sort of things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are -- if there be any virtue and if there be any praise think on these things. [applause] >> hello. i was going to read some poems but i think i'm going to scale back, so just a quick excerpt of christopher's words, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, comrades and friends. that is how he would have started and i am sorry i can't make the grade after that. this is from "hitch 22". a map is a world that did not show utopia set oscar wilde would not be worth consulting. i used to adore that phrase, but now reflect more upon the shipwrecks and risen islands to which the quest has led. but i hope and i believe that my advancing age has not quite

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when christopher hitchens-- a friend of both of ours-- was on the tv defending his book, someone like sean hannity would say, if you don't accept that god exists, how can you explain why there's a world at all? and christopher and dawkins don't really have good answers to this question. there are -- >> rose: he's an atheist isn't he? >> not just an anti-atheist-- not only did he not believe god existed. he was glad god did not exist. because if he wa existed we loby living in the equivalent of north korea. dawkins believes scientists can answer this question. and there is physicists like krause, who has written a book purporting to explain in scientific terms how a universe arose out of pure nothingness. >> rose: is that mainly math? >> yeah, it's equations that seem to imply that as he puts it, nothing is as unstable. so if there was a state of pure nothingness, the universe would leap out of it by a quantum miracle. >> rose: it's the security of science and math. >> yeah. what struck me was that the alternative seemed to be either god made the world or science can explain how the wo

change hearing in san diego superior court where thanks to the efforts of the new retired judge donna hitchensn the state of california, transition cases are much i improved. i'm not pointed out by the clerks and bailiffs in the courts anymore, and the client was stunned at how republicful they are. she called two lawyers before she was referred to me. the first of whom said i don't do that, and hung up on her, the other screamed at her that she was disgusting. that's still happening so you, as a practitioner, you may be the first person who, you know, outside maybe a therapist and close friend, to whom this person has ever spoken, who has the opportunity to treat them respectfully and give credence to the cause telling them you'll do the best for them, and that's -- that's what i think we, as lawyers -- even if we're not an impact litigation firm, can contribute to all of our clients that it's okay with you, they are not evil, nasty, imperialist violent dogs carrying out bad foreign policy of the united states. they are people doing their best to serve. i think that if we can make sure that w

change hearing in san diego superior court where thanks to the efforts of the new retired judge donna hitchensn the state of california, transition cases are much i improved. i'm not pointed out by the clerks and bailiffs in the courts anymore, and the client was stunned at how republicful they are. she called two lawyers before she was referred to me. the first of whom said i don't do that, and hung up on her, the other screamed at her that she was disgusting. that's still happening so you, as a practitioner, you may be the first person who, you know, outside maybe a therapist and close friend, to whom this person has ever spoken, who has the opportunity to treat them respectfully and give credence to the cause telling them you'll do the best for them, and that's -- that's what i think we, as lawyers -- even if we're not an impact litigation firm, can contribute to all of our clients that it's okay with you, they are not evil, nasty, imperialist violent dogs carrying out bad foreign policy of the united states. they are people doing their best to serve. i think that if we can make sure that w